Sand People
While down on the Cape for a wedding, we took a guided tour of the Provincetown dunes, only accessible by permitted four-wheel drive vehicles with the tires partially deflated in order to avoid a puncture on the bumpy sand banks. Our driver was extremely friendly and talkative, and gave us a good overview of the lives of the dune dwellers out here - people who spend their summers in one of the seventeen remaining sand shacks that were built in the 1940s. Several are now boarded up and it's a very different life to live out here, without access to running water or other traditional conveniences. Propane is used for cooking and refrigeration from tanks leashed to the houses.